I Armeekorps

The I Armeekorps was a corps of the German Wehrmacht that was active from 1 October 1934 to 8 May 1945. The corps was commanded by Walter Petzel during the invasion of Poland in 1939 and by Kuno-Hans von Both during the Battle of France, and it fought in the northern sector of the war with the Soviet Union from June 1941 to October 1944. From October 1944 to May 1945, the division was trapped in the Courland Pocket, and its commander, Christian Usinger, surrendered to the Red Army on 8 May 1945.